Improved curtain-fixture



rS HARTSHORN. SHADE FIXTURE.

No. 44,624. Patented Oct. 11, 1864.

Wfz'fess es I UNITED STATES PTENT OEEICE.

STEVART HARTSHORN, OF NEW YORK, 1N. Y.

IMPROVED CURTAIN-FIXTU RE. v

To .aZ-'w'wm it may concern.-

B'eit known that I, S. HARTSHORN, ot' the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and AImprovedShadeJEiXture;l

and I de hereby declare that the following is a t'nll, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enableothers skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings', termin g a part of this speciiication, vin which- 'Y Figure ljis'a front View of my invention applied to awindowshade; Fig. 2, a transverse section of the same, taken in the line .fr a', Fig. l; Fig. 3, anv enlarged view of Fig. 2, showing'a dit't'erent position of the pawl; Fig. 4, a longitudinal central section of a portion of 'the shaderoller; Fig. 5, an enlarged detachedfront View ot' the bracket and pawl pertaining to the invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts. f

This invention vrelates to an improvement in that class ot' shade-fixtures in which the shaderoller isprovided with a spiral spring for the vpurpose of automatically winding' up the shade.

`The invention consists in providing the shaderoller with a stop or fastening composed of a pawl which engages with notches in a hub" attached to one of -the end plates ot' fthe roller, -all being varr-an ged in such a manner that the shade may be retained or held entirely, as well as counterpoise, which have in some instances been employed in connec- 'tion with spring-rollers for holding the shade at any desired point.

' -A represents a windowshade, and B its roller, the latter having a spiral spring, C, fitted within it and arranged in such a manner that it will have a tendencyr to turn the roller B and W'ind up the shade. The spring C is shown in Fig. 4. This feature, however, of a springv within a shade-rollerfor vthe purpose of winding or Vrolling up the shade is not new. Y

' To one of the brackets D, in which the shade-rollerB is hung, there is attached by endof the roller B.

pawl E yis'. provided with a projection, I),

`being wound upon it.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,624, dated October li, 1864.

a pivot, a, a pawl, E, said pivot passing through one end of the pawl, so th'at its opposite endwill have a tendency to drop by its own gravity on a hub, F, attached concen trically to a plate, G, which is, secured to one (See Figs. 2 and 3.) The which, when the pawl drops, engages with either of two notches, c c, in the hub F and holds the rollerB, preventing the shade from The projection l) is made rather oblique or inclined at one side, t1, so as to admitoi being forced out ot'a notch, o, when the shade is pulled down. The other side, d', of the `projection bis made at right angles with the bottom of the pan-1, so as to .catch iirmlyagainst the front edges of the notches and prevent the spring G from forcing the projections b ont therefrom and winding np the shade. By pulling down the shade, however, so that the projection b ot" the pawl will be forced out of the notch c,`it is fitted in, and then allowing the spring O to turn the roller B briskly back, the projection b will slip over the notches, or the latter pass under the formcrwithout catching, and the shade maybe wound up to the desired height by the spring. The projection b of pawl l l catch into a notch as soon as .the motion ot" the roller is-checked.

I wonid remark that, if desired, the pawl E may be placed underneath or at one side ot the hub F instead ot' Vover it, as represented, and a spring be 'made to bea-r against it, in

'order that its projectionl bmay engage with the notchesA c c.

ll prefer, however, the former method.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A pawl, E, attached to the bracket or other fixture near a shade-roller to engage with n notched, hub, F, attached to one end of said roller, when said parts are used in connection 'or combination with a spiral spring, C, placed within the shade-roller, and all arranged to operate substantially as and lfor the purpose herein set forth.

STEWART HARTSHORN. Witnesses:

M. M. LivINGs'ToN, G. L. TOPLIFF. 

